The 1917 Russian Revolution ended centuries of Czarist rule, establishing a communist government that ostensibly answered to the public. The most massive regime change in history is examined in ...(Read More)

The entire course of history's deadliest siege is covered here, from the Germans' September 1941 encirclement of Leningrad, through the Red Army's desperate attempts to stave off the Wehrmacht, to ...(Read More)

In 1994, Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first black president, uttering the words "Let freedom reign" as part of his inaugural address, which is featured here. Mandela's great skill as an ...(Read More)

A fitting companion to The Great War Unseen Archives, this book offers an immediate and up-close look at the experiences and impressions of the fighting men in World War I and the families at ...(Read More)

Fifth-generation seafarers from Maine, Joanna and Lincoln Colcord spent their youth at sea aboard their father's ships, traveling to such far-flung locales as Argentina, South Africa, Hong Kong, and ...(Read More)

Lewis Coolidge (1783–1871) was a nephew of Billy Dawes, the man who accompanied Paul Revere on his legendary midnight ride, and that adventurous spirit seems to have run in the family: in 1806 ...(Read More)

The American leaders of the War of Independence were hardly command-from-the-rear types; they fought and often died beside their men, from Joseph Warren—named a major general of provincial militia in ...(Read More)

Abridged from his outstanding three-volume, National Book Award–winning study of Andrew Jackson, Robert Remini's one-volume biography of the seventh president of the United States distills the ...(Read More)

The editors of LIFE magazine present this history of America in pictures, often contrasting the past and present. The first section travels the country exploring what was here before the ...(Read More)

Upstairs, an aristocratic Edwardian home in early 20th-century England would have been a picture of elegance and order, a place for social gatherings and extravagantly arranged dinner parties. ...(Read More)

The remote city of Lijiang, in the far reaches of China's southern Yunnan Province, is a time capsule of ancient China; the city center has a history going back some eight centuries to the time of ...(Read More)